Vance à Utopia 98

Oeuvres de Vance non traduites en français
du moins pas encore .

 

ROMAN

Un seul roman n'a pas été traduit, il s'agit de Vandals of the Void, roman pour la jeunesse datant de 1953,
réedité en 1979 n° ISBN: 0-8398-2517-X par Gregg Press.
Dick Murdock accompagne sur la lune son père directeur de l'observatoire lunaire. Là, il rencontre un prospecteur fou qui lui raconte des histoires terrifiantes d'aliens vivant sous la surface, est-ce un complot de ... pirates?

NOUVELLES
Par contre quelques nouvelles ne sont toujours pas traduites à ce jour:

Ultimate Quest, autre titre:Dead Ahead (1950)

Sabotage on the Sulphur Planet (1952)

Seven exits from Bocz (1952)

First Star I see tonight, texte non SF(1954)

The Phantom Milkman (1956)

A Practical Man's Guide (1957)

The Brains of Earth, autre titre: Nopalgarth (1966) court roman

Cat Island (1947)

Nota: "[WORLDS BEYOND] Editor Damon Knight gave Vance the idea of an orbiting satellite as a weightless paradise for grossly obese people and commissioned a story for his magazine. Vance thought the idea 'inspired' and wrote 'Abercrombie Station.' Then WORLDS BEYOND folded before he could submit the story to Knight, so he sold it to THRILLING WONDER STORIES (February 1952). After the story appeared in print, Knight complimented Vance on the concept and said, wistfully, that the same idea had occurred to him but he never got around to writing the story. Vance reminded Knight that he had suggested the original idea and gave Knight due credit when the story was reprinted in The Best of Jack Vance (Pocket Books 1976).
'Abercrombie Station' introduced another of Vance’s spirited young female protagonists, Jean Parlier, who appeared again in 'Cholwell’s Chickens'” (THRILLING WONDER STORIES August 1952). The two novelettes eventually appeared together in 1965 as Monsters in Orbit, half of an Ace Double."
Editorial Blurb (THRILLING WONDER STORIES August 1952)
There have always been colonies - colonies of nudists, artists, vegetarians, non-conformists and plain old rugged individualists. Here at Abercombie Station, for the first time, we have a colony for fat people. Nor is their chosen isolation intended merely to avoid ridicule. It has a practical advantage. Far from Earth's burdensome gravity, freed of the chains of their weight, the fat people can skip as lithesome as lambs on the green, while their avoirdupois, instead of sagging grotesquely, balloons in rich, rosy, enticing curves.
Everybody has a different idea of paradise, but if you happen to be dieting - or should be - you'll have fun with Jack Vance's idea of a heavyweight heaven. 

ANTHOLOGIES en langue anglaise
je n'ai indiqué que les plus récentes ,surtout celles des éditions Underwood-Miller

1

The Augmented Agent and Other Stories

[1986] 0-88733-020-7 U-M

 [1988] 0-441-03610-4 Ace

 

The Augmented Agent

 

Crusade to Maxus

 

Golden Girl

 

The Man from Zodiac

 

The Planet Machine*

 

Shape-Up

 

Sjambak

 

Three-Legged Joe*

2

Chateau D'If [1990] 0-88733-098-3 U-M

 

Abercrombie Station

 

Chateau D'If

 

Cholwell's Chickens

 

Gift of Gab

 

Rumfuddle²

3

The Complete Magnus Ridolph

[1985]0-934438-98-6 U-M

 

Coup de Grace

 

The Howling Bounders

 

The King of Thieves

 

The Kokod Warriors

 

The Spa of Stars

 

The Unspeakable McInch

 

The Sub-Standard Sardines

 

To B or Not to C or to D

 

Hard Luck Diggings

 

Sanatoris Short-Cut

 

Postface de Vance lui-même

4

The Dark Side of the Moon [1986] 0-88733-021-5 U-M
[1989] 0-450-50257-0 New English Library

 

Introduction du chanteur Robert Palmer
clin d'oeil de Vance dans le roman "la Mémoire des Etoiles" il y a l'étoile de Robert Palmer.

 

Alfred's Ark

 

Dead Ahead*

 

Dover Spargill's Ghastly Floater

 

DP!

 

The Enchanted Princess

 

First Star I See Tonight*

 

The House Lords

 

Parapsyche*

 

Phalid's Fate

 

The Phantom Milkman*

 

Planet of the Black Dust*

 

A Practical Man's Guide*

 

Sulwen's Planet

 

The Temple of Han

5

The Light from a Lone Star [1985] 0-915368-31-5 NESFA
Edition spéciale pour la convention SF: Armadillacon (Austin, Texas-USA), jamais reedité.

 

Cat Island*

 

First Star I See Tonight*

 

Hard Luck Diggings

 

The Men Return

 

Noise

 

The Potters of Firsk

 

A Vance Encyclopedia, un essai sur Vance

6

Lost Moons [1982] 0-934438-56-0 U-M

 

Assault on a City

 

Dream Castle [ou I'll Build Your Dream Castle]

 

Four Hundred Blackbirds

 

Meet Miss Universe

 

The Potters of Firsk

 

Sabotage on Sulpher Planet*

 

Seven Exits from Bocz*

 

Winner Loose All

 

The World-Thinker

7

When the Five Moons Rise

[1992] 0-88733-145-9 U-M

 

Noise

 

Dust of Far Suns [ou Sail 25]

 

When the Five Moons Rise

 

The New Prime

 

Men of the Ten Books

 

Masquerade on Dicantropus

 

Where Hesperus Falls

 

Telekª

 

Ullward's Retreat

 

Dodkin's Job²

 

The Devil on Salvation Bluff²

 

Ecological Onslaught

8

Nopalgarth

[1980]0-87997-563-6 DAW

 

The Brains of Earth*

 

The Houses of Iszm

 

Son of the Tree

U-M = éditeur UNDERWOOD-MILLER  en reconstruction à l'heure actuelle.
les nouvelles marquées d'un * n'ont jamais été traduites
les nouvelles marquées d'un ², traduites en français, ne se trouvent pas dans un des receuils publiés par Presses-Pocket

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